What caused the Algerian War of Independence?

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Primary Sources

Charles Maier & Dan White, edt, The Thirteenth of May: The Advent of deGaulle's Republic, (1968)

Dwight Eisenhower, Waging Peace; The White House Years: A Personal Account 1956-1961, (1965)

Anthony Eden, The Memoirs of Anthony Eden: Full Circle, (1960)

Harold MacMillan, Riding the Storm 1956-1959, (1971)

Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962, (1978)

Secondary Sources

Benjamin Stora, Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History, (2001)

Roger Price, A Concise History of France, (2004)

Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France, (2006)

Jochim Joesten, The New Algeria, (1964)

William Weir, Guerrilla Warfare: Irregular Warfare in the Twentieth Century, (2008)

Andrew Hussey, The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs, (2014)

Footnotes

[1] Joesten, p. 21-3

[2] Weir, p. 159-60

[3] Stora, p. 3-6, Joesten, p. 12-4, Shepard, p. 20-5

[4] Stora, p. 3-8

[5] Shepard, p. 35-7

[6] Stora, p. 12-5

[7] Stora, p. 19-22

[8] Shepard, p. 3943, Joesten, p. 14

[9] Stora, p. 8-12

[10] Joesten, p. 14-6

[11] Stora, p. 22-7

[12] Joesten, 17-8, Shepard, p. 37-90

[13] Hussey, 179-81

[14] Joesten, p. 18-21, Stora, 15-9

[15] Joesten, p. 18-21

[16] Joesten, p. 18-21

[17] Hussey, p. 179-81

[18] Joesten, p. 23-4, 27-8

[19] Stora, p. 33-5

[20] Joesten, p. 24-7

[21] Horne, p. 83-90, 94-7, Shepard, 43-5, Weir, p. 160-1, Stora, p. 35-8

[22] Stora, p. 35-8

[23] Weir, p. 160-1, Horne, 94-7, Stora, p. 35-8, 56-8

[24] Honre, p. 83-90, Stora, p. 38-9

[25] Horne, p. 105-7

[26] Stora, p. 39-41, Horne, p. 107-9

[27] Weir, p. 160-1, Horne, p. 107-9, Shepard, p. 43-5

[28] Horne, p. 111-3

[29] Stora, p. 39-41, Joesten, p. 29-30

[30] Horne, p. 113-5

[31] Stora, p. 43-6

[32] Stora, p. 38-9, 60-2

[33] Stora, p. 59-60, 67-8

[34] Stora, p. 44-6, Maier & White, p. 73-8

[35] Stora, p. 44-8

[36] Eisenhower, p 24,

[37] Eisenhower, p. 104-5

[38] Eisenhower, p. 39-40

[39] Eden p. 582, Eisenhower, p. 72

[40] Stora, p 47-8

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